[aur-general] Plans for packages in community

[stefan-husmann at t-online.de]

Hello,

first of all congrats to Kessia and Paulo and good luck.

I also have some questions.

On BBS there was a discussion about having the documentation of the
TeXlive packages available in some repo. 

There are some up-upstream authors of CTAN-packages who strongly want
the documentation being made available in every distribution. On the
other hand Arch politics also say that sdocumentation should be made
available. So Firmicus asked me if I want to maintain the docus in
community. 

These would be the packages

4868099
texlive-bibtexextra-doc/texlive-bibtexextra-doc-2008.10643-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
214408939 texlive-core-doc/texlive-core-doc-2008.10646-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
20710413
texlive-fontsextra-doc/texlive-fontsextra-doc-2008.10613-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
1757920
texlive-formatsextra-doc/texlive-formatsextra-doc-2008.-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
2794585 texlive-games-doc/texlive-games-doc-2008.-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
2514887
texlive-genericextra-doc/texlive-genericextra-doc-2008.-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
224299 texlive-htmlxml-doc/texlive-htmlxml-doc-2008.-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
8765996
texlive-humanities-doc/texlive-humanities-doc-2008.-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
483826 texlive-langcjk-doc/texlive-langcjk-doc-2008.-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
2186946
texlive-langcyrillic-doc/texlive-langcyrillic-doc-2008.-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
7552430
texlive-langextra-doc/texlive-langextra-doc-2008.-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
1866546
texlive-langgreek-doc/texlive-langgreek-doc-2008.-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
1879228 texlive-latex3-doc/texlive-latex3-doc-2008.-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
178688742
texlive-latexextra-doc/texlive-latexextra-doc-2008.10642-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
2582106 texlive-music-doc/texlive-music-doc-2008.-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
7200588
texlive-pictures-doc/texlive-pictures-doc-2008.10648-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
1079978
texlive-plainextra-doc/texlive-plainextra-doc-2008.-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
121885850
texlive-pstricks-doc/texlive-pstricks-doc-2008.10641-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
22512122
texlive-publishers-doc/texlive-publishers-doc-2008.10647-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
10615573 texlive-science-doc/texlive-science-doc-2008.-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz

sum (in bytes)
614579073 

Exactly the same package sizes would be in community64 for x86_64
architecture. The packages are arch independent, though. 

What do you think? Are they too big?

What are the plans about having a repo for architecture independent
packages?


Aonther question: there is a package named sage-mathematics in the AUR. 
It has been orphaned, so I updated it. The PKGBUILD downloads an about
200 MB tarball, the resulting package has 560 MB and unpacks to more
than a gigabyte. Moreover, it comes with its own package manager, and
consists of sub-packages, that partially are already included in Arch,
i.e. python, maxima, octave...

Should this go to community?

What are your opinions?

Regards Stefan